Ever wonder why the right is freaked about Ebola, demanding that civil liberties be curbed for a malady that is vanishingly rare in the US? But not campus sexual assaults?
Or why lefties are hysterical about reports of sexual assaults on college campuses, demanding that civil liberties be truncated to fight a scourge that is exaggerated by an order of magnitude? But not Ebola?
We don't follow the science or use logic so much as we gather around the council fire and dance to the beat of the drums. If we are right tribesmen we dance counterclockwise, if left: clockwise. Righties wear the Faith in God bone through their nose while lefties wear their Faith in no God bone through their lower lip. Righties wear the Magic Market dried baboon testicles around their right wrist while lefties wear their Magic Bureaucrat balls on their left ankle.
And to learn what to think we listen to the drums. Shaking our heads at the blinkered, Immoral stupidity of the other tribe as we finger our God bone and stroke our testicles.
'Course it doesn't apply to me: I use pure logic to come up with my predjudices.
Fascinating argument with examples at the link.
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